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Maya D. Wiley (born January 2, 1964) is an American lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist. She has served as president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights since May 2022. Wiley served as counsel to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. She chaired the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) from 2016 to 2017.
East Village Other, New York City, 1965–1972; Edge City, Syracuse, 1970–1971 [1] New York Ace, New York City, 1971–1972; New York Avatar, New York City; New York Free Press, New York City; Other Scenes (dispatched from various locations around the world) [clarification needed] Rat Subterranean News, New York City, 1968–1970 (later Women ...
1897 – Ethel Benjamin became the first female lawyer in New Zealand and the first to appear as counsel for any case in the British Empire. [10] [11] 1899 – The (American) National Association of Women Lawyers, originally called the Women Lawyers' Club, was founded by a group of 18 women lawyers in New York City. [4]
Llewellyn's sister, Dorothy Cropper, became a judge on the New York State Court of Claims.His middle daughter, Alexandra Marie Llewellyn, was married to Tom Clancy. [2] His wife of 30 years, Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn, was vice chair of Philly Coke, serves as vice chair of Jazz at Lincoln Center, and was appointed by Michael Bloomberg to the NYC Commission on Women's issues.
The "Career Girls Murders" was the name given by the American media to the murders of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie, which occurred inside their apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, on August 28, 1963. [1]
George Whitmore Jr. (May 26, 1944 – October 8, 2012) was an African American man who was charged but later cleared of the infamous Career Girls Murders that occurred in New York City in 1963. [1] "The Supreme Court cited Mr. Whitmore’s case as 'the most conspicuous example' of police coercion when it issued its 1966 ruling in Miranda v.
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Clarice Baright (1905): [121] First Jewish female magistrate in New York City, New York (c. 1925) Jane Bolin (1932): [21] [22] [23] First African American female admitted to the New York City Bar Association and to join the New York City Law Department; Mary Bednar: [33] First openly LGBT female to serve on the New York City Family Court (1986)